Jack Clark

Web games like Kongregate's may be one of the key ingredients for developing powerful artificial intelligence. Read on to find out why this is, where they fit in, and how you can help! Hi! I'm Jack Clark, strategy and communications director at OpenAI — a non-profit artificial intelligence research lab. I want to tell you about a new AI project from us called "Universe" that relies in part on games from Kongregate. At OpenAI, we've spent the past few months building software called Universe to let us introduce our nascent artificial intelligence systems to the digital world. We're making the main components of Universe available as open source code, so anyone can use it to develop their own AI systems. Our initial release includes a thousand different environments to train your AI on, including many Kongregate games. Universe makes it simple to hook up an AI agent to a program running on a computer, and lets the AI system manipulate the program in the same way a human does — by observing the pixels on the screen and manipulating the